Online ticketing is closed. Tickets available at the door starting at 8pm. Cash only

Some call it punk rock, some call it grass roots, but labels aside, NYC-based Animation Block Party is the premier animation festival of the East Coast.

Since the first official ABP film festival on September 9th, 2004, thousands of filmmakers have submitted their animated shorts and screened them at the yearly festival. ABP is dedicated to exhibiting all genres of the world's best independent, professional and student animation.

Flavorpill said of ABP, “One of our favorite festivals of the year, Animation Block Party is like Saturday morning cartoons for adults, but so much better.”

Gawker selected the 2011 ABP trailer as one of their “best videos of the week.”

And as Melana Ryzik pointed out in the New York Times review of ABP: “Several pieces screened in the past years . . . have been turned into television and web series for MTV and the Sundance Channel,” so come on out and maybe you’ll get a sneak preview next year’s indie TV hits.

Burt Talks to the Bees (Isabella Rossellini | USA | 2 min.)Meet the bees—the queen, the workers and the drones—in this wonderfully fantastic and wildly educational series of short films created by Isabella Rossellini, actress, director and uncanny Burt impersonator. Once you meet them, you’ll want to save them too. Visit www.wildforbees.com to see how.

MUSIC

Rifle Recoil"The songs are built on repeating melodies and phrases, looped guitars and beatbox, atmospherics and soaring falsettos. The repetitive, hypnotic nature of these songs is like a soothing balm to the psyche, calming and fresh. This is instantly catchy and infectious music, enough to make you yearn even harder for summer days and tall glasses of lemonade." - Quiet Color

Rooftop Films is a New York based non-profit whose mission is to engage diverse communities by showing independent movies in outdoor locations, producing new films, coordinating youth media education, and renting equipment at low cost to artists.